The House Among The Orange Groves

They met at thirteen, in the particular world that only a boarding school creates, its rituals, its loyalties, its unspoken rules about who you were allowed to become. They were sorted, shaped, and sent out into their lives. And then, for forty-six years, they were apart.

The House Among the Orange Groves finds them again at Casa Satya, a finca in Majorca, where the light falls differently and the heat asks questions that ordinary life never quite gets around to. Mae, Mel, Mar and Max have each carried something for decades. What happens when four women finally set it down, together, is what this novel is about.

This is upmarket women's fiction for readers who know the difference between a book that entertains and one that changes something in you. It is atmospheric and precise. It is written entirely for the spoken voice, in third-person close, with prose calibrated for the ear rather than the eye. It does not offer easy resolution. It offers something rarer: the sense of being truly seen inside a story.

The author narrates the audiobook herself. This written version is the same novel, for those who want to read slowly, return to passages, and hold the pages in their hands.

If you have ever looked back at the women you were closest to at your most unfinished and wondered what became of them, and of you this book was written for you.